Eric Prime

Back from the dentist. Now let's look at the other stuff. Movie/Date Monday Tuesday Wednesday Us 1,070 1,063 1,438 11 days 10 days 9 days Shazam Early 0 0 12,509 10 days Dumbo 777 685 442 18 days 17 days 16 days Shazam! 0 0 918 23 days Us Days 14-9 136% of Glass (54.7M using the 3-Day, 63.1M using the 4-Day) Dumbo Days 18-16 144% of Dragon 3 (79.3M) Cumulative 48% of Dragon 3 (26.3M) (Note Dragon 3 had 17 days more presales) Shazam Day 23 59% of Captain Marvel (90.9M) First Day of Presales 15% of Captain Marvel (23.5M) So yeah, there's a lot to unpack here. -Us is continuing to kill it here, gaining on Glass by significant margins. Considering Glass is a more fan-driven movie (although Get Out/Peele fans might hurt my argument here), this is doing excellently. -Dumbo's coming back down to earth more as presales slow down a touch, but still going strong. -Shazam is way too early to call, with two extremes depending on where you're going. But getting close to 1,000 is a great start either way. I wish I could use the Dragon 3 Fandango show to compare with the Shazam Fandango show, but the problem comes with showtimes. Shazam has two, while Dragon had 1. That makes comparing the two exceedingly difficult. Ah well.

Fandango App Monday Tues Wed Thursday Love, Simon 863 1,256 2,907 Blockers 504 1,106 2,931 Truth Or Dare 385 760 2,133 Upgrade 9 119 522 Adrift 63 308 1,268 Oceans 8 3,009 4,372 11,114 Hotel Artemis 26 166 520 Hotel Transylvania 3 1,753 2,674 6,605 14,754 Unfriended 71 240 975 Teen Titans *462 2,125 4,526 Christopher Robin 1,560 2,442 5,355 11,509 The Darkest Minds 130 244 579 1,777 Slender Man 177 418 1,091 3,737 House With Clocks 897 1,469 3,607 8,074 Smallfoot 734 1,261 2,448 Bad Times at the El Royale 264 481 1,257 3,350 The Grinch 3,580 4,860 10,092 17,046 Second Act 353 611 1,204 Dogs Way Home 259 623 1,516 3,257 Upside 394 1,431 3,669 8,602 Lego Movie 2 2,552 4,130 8,601 13,320 How to Train Your Dragon 3 3,724 6,674 12,935 21,313 Greta 120 287 824 1,962 Captive State 60 172 402 Five Feet Apart 613 1,053 2,225 Wonder Park 607 988 1,749 Captive State comps: 77% of Upgrade (3.6M) 77% of Hotel Artemis (2.5M) 167% of Unfriended 2 (6.1M) 32% of El Royale (2.3M) 49% of Greta (2.2M) Yeah, this is dump city Five Feet Apart comps: 76% of Love, Simon (9M) 76% of Blockers (15.6M) 104% of Truth or Dare (19.5M) 20% of Ocean's 8 (8.3M) 384% of Darkest Minds (22.4M) 204% of Slender Man (23.2M) 185% of Second Act (12M) 61% of The Upside (12.3M) This is really hard to find good comps for, because the Wednesday fan events are inflating Wednesday by a considerable amount. But I guess maybe around 9-12M? Wonder Park comps: 26% of Hotel Transylvania 3 (11.7M) 82% of Teen Titans Go! (8.6M) 33% of Christopher Robin (8M) 48% of House w/ Clock (12.9M) 71% of Smallfoot (16.5M) 17% of The Grinch (11.7M) 115% of A Dog's Way Home (13M) 20% of Lego Movie 2 (6.9M) 13% of Dragon 3 (7.4M) So yeah, low teens seems like the ballpark here. For the record, I'll get to the upcoming movies in a bit. I've got a dentist appointment in 20 minutes

I knew @WrathOfHan's "I'm in college" excuse was a lie

Noam Chomsky would be ashamed of us

akvalley still has access to it somehow, so we just use his thing. http://akvalley.pythonanywhere.com/static/MT_track.txt

Hitchcock kinda comes close w/ Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho, but then The Birds kinda ruins things. Never seen either of his '56 movies, but I'm just gonna assume those are really good too and complete the "good 5-movie run"

Only thing I remember about it was that dumbass ending with the car batteries.

I think he had a miserable experience with Planet of the Apes due to deadlines and him being forced to rush everything, and he admitted he never wanted to do a sequel. I think he's cool with Alice, but I've always felt like he only signed up to do that movie so Disney could greenlight his stop-motion Frankenweenie movie. Kinda like how Musker and Clements only made Hercules so Treasure Planet could get made.

https://deadline.com/2019/03/emma-roberts-justin-hartley-glenn-howerton-damon-lindelof-the-hunt-universal-blumhouse-1202573567/ Guess we know what that untitled Blumhouse movie is now. Also hype to see Justin Hartley's beautiful face in the cinema

If they're talking about the Short Term 12 dude, then HYPE

Think boxofficerules isn't trying to paint these as flops, but movies that arguably disappointed or underperformed relative to expectations, both here on BOT and in the industry. Obviously Glass and HDD2U are both financially successful, but considering expectations, buzz, and tracking, it's arguable they should have made more.

The big issue when it comes to Best Picture is how stacked Universal is in terms of contenders. 1917, Cats, Queen & Slim. Even Yesterday's got a shot in the Golden Globes. Even if one or two of them disappoint, I don't really see Universal giving Us that much of a push in BP, especially since, as an example, Chazelle and Jenkins' follow-ups to their award-winning hits didn't get Best Picture noms (Talking about First Man, not La La Land. Don't bother me). Lupita might get a Best Actress nom though

And so it begins... 2019-03-13 11:00:00 818 Captain Marvel (2019) 2019-03-13 11:00:00 782 Fandango Early Access Shazam! 2019-03-13 11:00:00 104 How to Train Your Dragon The Hidden World 2019-03-13 11:00:00 80 Captain Marvel 3D 2019-03-13 11:00:00 75 Captain Marvel The IMAX 2D Experience 2019-03-13 11:00:00 56 Tyler Perrys A Madea Family Funeral 2019-03-13 11:00:00 46 The Lego Movie 2 The Second Part 2019-03-13 11:00:00 44 Us (2019) 2019-03-13 11:00:00 42 Wonder Park 2019-03-13 11:00:00 35 Shazam! 2019-03-13 11:00:00 32 Shazam! The IMAX 2D Experience 2019-03-13 11:00:00 30 Five Feet Apart

Tickets for both the Fandango early shows and opening weekend are now up for those wondering

Only one out of the four has a baby elephant. Can you guess which one?

My favorite Twitter account at the moment. Their Norbit one still gets to me. Even he knows this is going to destroy his career forever

Movie/Date Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Us 1,070 1,063 11 days 10 days Dumbo 777 685 18 days 17 days Us From Day 14-Day 10 129% of Glass (52M using 3-Day, 59.9M using 4-Day) Dumbo Day 18-Day 17 174% of Dragon 3 (95.8M) Cumulative by Day 17 45% of Dragon 3 (24.5M) (Note Dragon 3 had 17 days more presales)

Fandango App Monday Tues Wed Thursday Love, Simon 863 1,256 2,907 Blockers 504 1,106 2,931 Truth Or Dare 385 760 2,133 Upgrade 9 119 522 Adrift 63 308 1,268 Oceans 8 3,009 4,372 11,114 Hotel Artemis 26 166 520 Hotel Transylvania 3 1,753 2,674 6,605 14,754 Unfriended 71 240 975 Christopher Robin 1,560 2,442 5,355 11,509 The Darkest Minds 130 244 579 1,777 Slender Man 177 418 1,091 3,737 House With Clocks 897 1,469 3,607 8,074 Smallfoot 734 1,261 2,448 Bad Times at the El Royale 264 481 1,257 3,350 The Grinch 3,580 4,860 10,092 17,046 Second Act 353 611 1,204 Dogs Way Home 259 623 1,516 3,257 Upside 394 1,431 3,669 8,602 Lego Movie 2 2,552 4,130 8,601 13,320 How to Train Your Dragon 3 3,724 6,674 12,935 21,313 Greta 120 287 824 1,962 Captive State 60 172 Five Feet Apart 613 1,053 Wonder Park 607 988 Captive State comps: 144% of Upgrade (6.7M) 104% of Hotel Artemis (3.3M) 242% of Unfriended 2 (8.8M) 36% of El Royale (2.5M) 60% of Greta (2.7M) Five Feet Apart comps: 84% of Love, Simon (9.8M) 95% of Blockers (19.6M) 138% of Truth or Dare (25.9M) 24% of Ocean's 8 (10M) 431% of Darkest Minds (25.2M) 251% of Slender Man (28.6M) 172% of Second Act (11.2M) 73% of The Upside (15M) Wonder Park comps: 37% of Hotel Transylvania 3 (16.3M) 40% of Christopher Robin (9.9M) 67% of House w/ Clock (17.9M) 78% of Smallfoot (18M) 20% of The Grinch (13.7M) 158% of A Dog's Way Home (17.8M) 24% of Lego Movie 2 (8.2M) 15% of Dragon 3 (8.1M)

...let's just assume he was talking about films only.

If that 15M sticks, CM's first Monday drop and first Tuesday jump are both better than Beauty and the Beast's. BATB: -72%, +32.1% CM: -71.5%, +36.5% Of course BATB is a more family-driven movie, and I'm not expecting this to drop sub-50%, but this bodes well for a strong hold in weekend 2, especially since this weekend's releases combined are likely to make less than what Power Rangers opened to

Just got a like from our god @Rthmar-vell Think that means 15M is the legit number he has

Wish I could remember where I found it, but I believe Peele's talked about how he's much more invested in creating original concepts and worlds than he is working on established IPs, which I feel is far better for him. Feels like every up-and-coming filmmaker gets forced to make corporate IP at some point, so it's nice to see at least one new filmmaker is allowed to do his own thing

🤔 15M?

Finally. Now I can pitch to Disneyland the Freddy Got Fingered ride I've been developing for years.